56 MY GROWING GARDEN 



The neighborhood of this old garden was famous 

 for its strawberries, as I shall detail later, and I 

 have maintained that fame in my later plantings, 

 I think. The last April planting was of one hun- 

 dred "Progressive," a fall-bearing sort, which — 

 but there ! I'm getting ahead of my story. 



The resolve to make this garden give us good 

 things to eat imphes attention to vegetable seed- 

 sowing early and often in April. The very first 

 day of the month saw a sowing of "Gradus" peas, 

 and on the fourteenth, last year, we tried an exper- 

 iment proposed in a garden journal by a seed-sharp 

 whose ambition somewhat outruns his knowledge. 

 Eight separate sorts of peas were sowed the same 

 day, the promise being that they would mature in 

 such succession as to give us six weeks of a vege- 

 table that we are fond of. They didn't happen 

 exactly that way, but somewhat so, as will later 

 appear. 



Radishes, of course, come along in April — ^the 

 nice little French breakfast sorts in about three 

 weeks after sowing, if the ground is rich and fine. 

 I didn't know last year how good spinach was, 

 until autumn; but this year it is going to come 

 along with the peas, in two weeks' successions, 

 with the New Zealand variety as the summer 

 standby. 



